Juan Allende-Blin

Juan Allende-Blin (born 24 February 1928) is a Chilean composer and academic teacher who lives in Germany.

Career Born in Santiago de Chile, Allende-Blin studied first with his uncle, Pedro Humberto Allende, and with , a pupil of Anton Webern. He then studied at the University of Santiago, and with Olivier Messiaen at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse. He was professor of musical analysis at the University of Santiago from 1954 to 1957. In 1957 he moved to Germany and worked from 1962 for the broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk in Hamburg. He has lived as a free-lance composer in Essen, together with the composer and organist Gerd Zacher, until Zacher's death.

Allende-Blin composed instrumental music, two ballets, chansons and music for tape. He reconstructed and orchestrated Debussy's unfinished opera La Chute de la Maison Usher. As a music publicist, he wrote about musicians and exile. His compositions were published by .

Selected works Transformationen for brass, percussion, celesta and piano Profils for clarinet, trumpet, trombone, cello and percussion Magnetfelder for piano, clarinet, double bass and tape Transformations III for percussion, 1952 Transformations IV for Klavier, 1960 Echelons for organ, 1962–68 Silences interrompus for clarinet, double bass and piano, 1969/1970 Mein blaues Klavier for organ, Drehorgel and Maultrommel, 1970 Zeitspanne for piano, 1971–74 Souffle for two choirs and projections, 1972 Perspectives : pour clarinette en si b, 1977 Des Landes verwiesen / konzertante und szenische Aktionen, 1978, libretto: Jean-Pierre Faye Rapport sonore / Relato sonoro / Klangbericht, musical radio feature, Karl-Sczuka-Preis 1983 Dialogue for piano and two Interpreters, 1983 Coral de caracola for organ, 1985 Transformations V for organ and chamber ensemble, 1987 Tagebuchgesänge after Franz Kafka and Lautréamont for two baritones and chamber orchestra, premiere 1987 Streichquartett, 1995 Walter Mehring – ein Wintermärchen / Imaginäre Szene für Bariton und Kammerensemble, 1998 Le Voyage, cantata for baritone and ten instruments, 2001 Transformations VII pour 14 instruments, 2003 Gegenträume / contre-rêves - radiophone Klangcollage, 2003 Wunde am Ende der Zeit - radiophone Klangcollage, 2003 Wandlungen - radiophone Klangcollage, 2005 Traumräume - radiophone Klangcollage, 2007 Cantate à trois for soprano, tenor, baritone and 4 ensembles, 2007

Selected discography Die Klaviermusik von Juan Allende-Blin, Thomas Günther, piano, Cybele SACD 160.401 Die Orgelmusik von Juan Allende-Blin, Gerd Zacher, organ, Cybele SACD 060.401

Publications Ein Leben aus Erinnerung und Utopie, Essays, edited by Stefan Fricke and , Pfau, Saarbrücken 2002, Kirchenmusik unter Hitler. In Hanns-Werner Heister, Hans-Günther Klein (Hg.): Musik und Musikpolitik im faschistischen Deutschland, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt a.M. 1984.

Awards (1983) Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande (5 October 1999) Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia (2009) National Prize for Musical Arts (Chile) (2018)